On display during a the press conference at the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office, 78 pounds of pot and $35,000 in cash seized from a home in Collins on Friday.

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Bail was set Monday at $100,000 cash for 39-year-old Brian E. Guilmette of Collins, arrested Friday in what authorities say is the largest Manitowoc County seizure of marijuana originating from out of the county.

Investigators from the Manitowoc County Metro Drug Unit Friday evening seized 78 pounds of marijuana - worth about $300,000 - and more than $35,000 cash after executing a search warrant at Guilmette's Collins residence on Manitowoc County JJ, said Lt. Dave Remiker at a press conference Monday.

The drugs were packaged in plastic containers hidden in a crawl space and garage of the ...